Level: 2
Tuning: Standard

"Hard Travelin'" is one of many song Woody Guthrie wrote to celebrate the workingman. He did spend some of his early years traveling around the country taking on all kinds of jobs. The solo to this key-of-E version of the song is typical Travis-style fingerpicking, with the thumb playing alternating bass notes on all four downbeats of each bar while the fingers pick out the melody on treble strings. During the verse, the alternating thumb keeps going, but the fingers combine with the thumb in two repetitive patterns, as seen in bars 1 and 3 of the "Back-up Verse" section.